milkwood
Meanings
noun
- Any of a number of trees with milky sap:
- Sideroxylon inermis, the white milkwood
- Mimusops zeyheri, the Transvaal red milkwood.
- Alstonia scholaris (scholar tree, milky pine), and other species in the genus Alstonia.
- Trimeris scaevolifolia, a tree endemic to the Atlantic island of St. Helena.
- Many species of the genus Tabernaemontana, that are native to the Americas.
Word forms
Etymology
From milk + wood.
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